• Top News
  • NBC News/New York Times/CBS News/The Hill: Number of missing plummets to 3 in hard-hit Kerr County in wake of Texas floods
  • NewsMax: Texas’ Search for Flood Victims Stretches Into 3rd Week
  • Univision: Venezuela releases 12 political prisoners after a prisoner exchange negotiated with the US and El Salvador, NGO reports.
  • Breitbart: 10 ‘Wrongfully Detained’ Americans Headed Home from Venezuela in Prisoner Swap for Gang Members Trump Deported
  • New York Times: A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap
  • AP: Maduro celebrates return of Venezuelans held in El Salvador maximum security prison
  • Wall Street Journal: Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps
  • New York Post: Trump admin reportedly planning to use NJ military base to house migrant detainees — drawing Democrat ire
  • FOX News: Democrats fume over new plan to house illegal migrants in New Jersey, Indiana military bases
  • FOX News: Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a ‘model’ for other states, retired ICE special agent says
  • NPR: Florida: the frontline of Trump’s immigration crackdown
  • NewsMax: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detainees Decry Conditions
  • Daily Wire: Tom Homan Thrashes ‘Buffoon’ Jerry Nadler Over Comment On Anti-ICE Attacks
  • Los Angeles Times: California, other Democratic-led states roll back Medicaid access for people lacking legal status
  • AP: 3 Democrat-led states have rolled back Medicaid access for people lacking permanent legal status
  • Blaze: Blue states slash Medicaid coverage for illegal aliens
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Reuters: US races to build migrant tent camps after $45 billion funding boost, WSJ reports
  • NewsMax: ICE Deputy Director Sheahan: Dems Taking Side of ‘Worst of the Worst’
  • Axios: State, local officials seek to ban ICE agents’ masks
  • Washington Post: The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests
  • Breitbart: Trump Offers $50K Bonus to Re-Sign Former ICE Agents
  • NPR: [FL] Reporting on family separation and aggressive immigration enforcement in Florida
  • Washington Post: [LA] Couple allege ICE arrested them after pretending to be cops in ruse
  • FOX News: [OH] Federal authorities arrest Ohio man for allegedly threatening to murder ICE agents
  • Los Angeles Times: [OH] Journalists among at least 13 arrested during immigration-related protest in Cincinnati
  • New York Post: [IN] Indiana mom-of-seven nabbed after allegedly trying to sell baby daughter to sexual predator
  • FOX News: [IL] ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of decapitating Illinois woman after judge set him free
  • Telemundo: [TX] Pregnant mother reports violent arrest of her partner by CBP agents in Texas
  • Univision: [NM] ICE prohibits bail for detained immigrants: fear among people who entered the country illegally
  • AP: [OR] Immigration arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] ‘Keep ICE out of Dublin’: Hundreds protest prospect of immigrant detention centers
  • Washington Examiner: [CA] Illegal immigrant federally charged for faking ICE ‘kidnapping’
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • SFGate: Rosie O’Donnell Says She’s ‘Not Fazed’ by Trump’s Threat To Revoke Her U.S. Citizenship—as She Brands President ‘the Tangerine Mussolini’
  • The Hill/Breitbart: [Brazil] Rubio revokes visas of Brazilian judge, allies over Bolsonaro prosecution
  • Axios: [Brazil] Brazilian judge’s visa yanked by U.S. for prosecuting Trump allies
  • Reuters: [Brazil] Tensions rise as Lula blasts US over visa sanctions tied to Bolsonaro trial
  • Reuters: [Brazil] Senior Brazilian Official Says Judiciary Won’t Be Intimidated by US Visa Bans
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Border Patrol union head says ‘it’s a really good time’ to be an agent under Trump admin
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] U.S. Customs removes crew members from at least 2 Great Lakes cruise ships in Detroit
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Local artists transform border wall and send message of unity during deportation turmoil
  • New York Post: [Australia] Aussies are traveling to the US in droves, despite Trump’s strict border stance: report
• Transportation Security Administration
  • AP: New airport scanners are better at spotting liquid explosives, but many airports lack them
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Examiner: Lawmakers define extreme heat as disaster in new FEMA bill
  • USA Today: Storm Tracker: National Hurricane Center watching disturbance in Atlantic
  • ABC News: Severe weather, flash flood threat impact eastern half of US
  • New York Times: [DC] Heavy Rains in Washington Area Flood Roads and Prompt Water Rescues
  • AP: [TN] The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won’t face charges
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Broward Health cybersecurity director accused of possessing over 10,000 files of child pornography, arrest documents show
  • CBS News: [TX] Texas’ search for victims continues weeks after deadly flooding. Here’s what to know
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Abbott seeks to make more Texas counties eligible for disaster aid in wake of floods
  • AP: [AZ] Arizona governor tours wildfire destruction along Grand Canyon’s North Rim
  • New York Times: [OR] Cram Fire Grows to Largest Wildfire in U.S. So Far This Year
  • Washington Examiner: [CA] Green, Orleans Complex fires continue to burn in California
  • Reuters/ABC News: [HI] Tsunami threat, warnings issued as Russian coast struck by series of earthquakes
• Federal Protective Service
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] California wildfires: Three firefighters injured by falling tree in Siskiyou County
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • FOX News: Elmo hack exposes serious social media cybersecurity threats
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NewsMax: [FL] Pentagon Vets in Florida Face Credible Terror Threat
  • New York Times: [CA] Driver Purposely Plows Car Into Crowd in L.A., Injuring at Least 30, Officials Say
  • CNN: [CA] At least 30 hurt after vehicle strikes crowd outside Los Angeles nightclub. The driver was then shot by bystander, police say
• National Security News
  • FOX Business: [Mexico] Trump administration fires warning at Mexico over ‘blatant disregard’ of air agreement
  • New York Times: [Syria] Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
  • Reuters: [China] China’s exports of rare earth magnets to the US surge in June

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